The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Down in the midnight zone, where light fades to nothing, a single breath becomes a long commitment. Sperm whales slip beneath the surface and vanish into cold pressure that would crush most animals.

Strange Deep-Sea Creatures Were Once Mistaken for Monsters and It's Easy to See Why ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone. By Elizabeth Preston Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared.

Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor — a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...